Past Programs
Buddhism - 2003
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The Silk Road
31/12/2003
Of all the places on the Silk Road the town of Dunhuang revealed the greatest riches to historians.
Buddhist Art: Endangered Species
19/11/2003
In March 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed the tallest standing Buddhas in the world. To Professor Pal, an eminent scholar of Asian art, the loss of the Bamiyan Buddhas confirms the importance of museums in the West.
The 17th Karmapa
21/05/2003
In December 1999 a fourteen year old Tibetan boy-monk in disguise embarked on a perilous mountain journey, to reach Dharamsala in India, under the protection of the Dalai Lama.
Unholy Cow
14/05/2003
The streets of India are crowded with cars and cows because Hindus believe that the cow is sacred and must not be killed for food. But leading historian D. N. Jha shows in his book The Myth of the Holy Cow that Brahmanical and Buddhist diets included beef. Why did it change and why is Dr. Jha's life in danger for telling the truth about this sacred cow?
The Silk Road
16/04/2003
Of all the places on the Silk Road the town of Dunhuang revealed the greatest riches to historians.
